Please share, and consider applying for, the following one year, part-time position working with me at Queens College on digital writing initiatives.
Job: Writing at Queens Digital Writing Fellow
The Writing at Queens program at Queens College seeks a CUNY graduate student with expertise in WordPress to work with a team coordinating our growing digital writing initiatives. Team responsibilities include:
Management of QC Voices, a student blogging program: working with the Writing at Queens Director to recruit bloggers; providing technical and creative support to the bloggers during setup and throughout the academic year; designing and facilitating workshops on best practices for blogging; and publicizing the program throughout the college.
Liaison for QWriting, Queens College’s digital writing community: Working with the college’s Educational Technologist to identify faculty who need one-on-one support; designing workshops for faculty using blogs in courses; conducting in-class workshops in courses involved in technically advanced uses of WordPress; and maintaining a support listserv.
WaQ Webmaster: Maintaining the Writing at Queens website and its internal program blog.
Researcher for Qwriting 2.0: developing a bibliography of research on teaching digital writing; analyzing CUNY and non-CUNY digital writing platforms (CityTech, Baruch, Academic Commons); identifying grant opportunities; and meeting with a faculty advisory committee.
The Digital Fellow will be expected to be on campus 1 or 2 times a week for meetings with a cohort of Writing Fellows and faculty. The ideal candidate will have experience working with diverse student and faculty populations but also be self-motivated to work on research projects on his or her own.
Compensation is $22,000 per year for approximately 15 hours a week, to begin August 27th, 2015.
Please send a 400-word statement of interest and a CV by August 1 to Kevin Ferguson kevin.ferguson@qc.cuny.edu.